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Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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🗓️ 4 June 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Dan, Jamilah, and Elizabeth answer a listener question about introducing kids to consuming news. What news sources are age-appropriate? How can parents contextualize current events for kids? The hosts also answer a question from a mom worried that getting a cat will cause tension in the house.
For Slate Plus, they discuss J.K. Rowling’s new children’s story The Ickabog and the children’s illustration contest that’s accompanying the book.
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Recommendations:
Jamilah recommends Me and My Feelings: A Kids' Guide to Understanding and Expressing Themselves by NBCT Vanessa Green Allen, M.Ed.
Elizabeth recommends giving your kid a toolbox. It’s a great place to store all the little treasures that get picked up in the great outdoors.
Dan recommends ditching your current lawn mower for an electric lawn mower.
Kids News Resources:
KidNuz, a daily podcast for kids.
The Learning Network from the New York Times.
KidsPost from The Washington Post.
Other Recommendations:
“People Who Hate Cats Live With Cats For A Week” from Buzzfeed.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.8 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting podcast, for Thursday, June 4th, the |
| 0:10.6 | New to News edition. |
| 0:12.5 | I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, cultural critic and communications consultant, and Mom |
| 0:17.3 | Tenaima, who's seven, and we live in hell, a.k.a. |
| 0:21.6 | The United States of America, specifically the Los Angeles part. |
| 0:26.8 | Hey, I'm Dan Kweiss. I'm a writer at Slate. |
| 0:28.8 | I'm the author of the book How to Be a Family. |
| 0:30.2 | I'm the dad of Lyra, who's 15, and Harper, who's 12. |
| 0:34.0 | We live in Arlington, Virginia, just across the Potomac River from hell as it currently exists. |
| 0:40.7 | I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. |
| 0:42.2 | I write the homeschool and family travel blog Dutch Dutch goose. |
| 0:45.3 | I'm the mom to three boys, Henry 8, Oliver 6, and Teddy 3. |
| 0:50.4 | And I'm located in Navarre, Florida, where everyone was fleeing all the other parts of the country |
| 0:55.9 | are coming. So that's lovely. Today on the show, since you told us what you wanted, what you |
| 1:01.6 | really, really wanted, we will be answering two listener questions like we used to do. First, |
| 1:07.4 | we'll be discussing how children consume news. What news is age appropriate? |
| 1:12.0 | And what are reliable news sources? |
| 1:14.0 | How do you contextualize news for your kids? |
| 1:17.2 | Boy, do I have a story about that this week? |
| 1:19.7 | We'll also be answering a listener question from a parent whose daughter really, really, really, really wants a cat. |
| 1:25.0 | And her mom is thinking of finally caving after five years of asking, but is still concerned |
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